Hi everyone! Over the last month, I’ve read and responded to well over a thousand e-mails as well as hundreds of messages on various sites – and quite frankly, it’s exhausting. I spend the majority of my spare time answering messages, and I hardly ever work on Mizuu anymore. It’s been 24 days since I wrote any meaningful code for Mizuu. Honestly, I’m not happy with the situation. My hobby is developing Android applications – not providing user support to thousands of people each month. Thankfully, it seems like the load has been lifted a bit now, so I’ll try to get some actual work done soon. If anyone has any ideas of how I’ll be able to better scale user support, please don’t hold back. Here’s what’s planned for the next release: Support for the new API on Trakt.tv Updated DLNA library Huge refactoring of file sources and library updates Bug fixes – mainly for stuff related to TV shows I don’t have any estimate of when it’ll be ready. Also, I’d love to use this opportunity to encourage all Android developers that use Mizuu to contribute to the code. Mizuu has been open source for quite some time now, and I’d love to see it become a large project that’s developed and maintained by several people out in the open. As always you can find the source code on the GitHub repo....

Hi everyone! Some of you probably already know this, but I received an e-mail from Google Play four days ago, telling me that Mizuu had been removed from Google Play due to a “violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy.” There’s been quite a bit of talk about it on Google+ and Reddit since then, and just a few hours ago I received word that it has been reinstated. I’ve republished the application and it is now online again. For anyone wondering, it seems like the issue wasn’t related to the app icon nor the screenshots. I was asked to prove to Google that I was authorized to use the data from www.themoviedb.org. I haven’t posted anything about it here, as I wanted to wait until I received a final decision. Anyway, just wanted to let you guys know what happened and how it turned...

It finally happened! Mizuu 3.0 “Black” has been released. It’s a massive update and I can’t wait to tell you about the changes. It’s impossible to go through all the changes in details, so I’ll stick with the most important ones. Let’s go! A new design language First of all, the entire application has been redesigned. I won’t say that this is a “Material design” update – partly because that phrase has been misused ever since Google announced the design concept, and partly because there’s a lot missing in order for it to fully make use of all the new stuff. Having said that, version 3.0 does have some cool elements and I’ve tried to follow the guidelines. Future updates will bring visual improvements as well, so worry not! Like I said, the entire application has had a makeover, and I’d like to highlight a few of the changes. The movie and TV show library overviews look a lot different than what you’re used to seeing. The drop-down menu on the top left is now gone and has been replaced with tabs that each show a different view of your content – i.e. favorites, watched content and new releases. The code for the library views has been completely rewritten and it’s a lot smarter now. One such example is that the tabs are sandboxed. This means that you can search, filter and sort in one tab and leave all the other tabs completely untouched. Also, filters can now stack, meaning that you can set both a genre filter and a release year filter, if you please. The layout for movie...

The upcoming version is almost ready for prime time. The release includes a lot of changes to strings throughout the application, and I’d love to get some translations ready before releasing the new version. Translation strings in Mizuu is quite simple. You just need to download an XML file with all the strings, and then translate them into your language. There are quite a number of strings, however, so it’s not something you do in five minutes. Most languages already have most of the strings translated, although some of the original strings have been updated and need to be updated as well in the translations. You can find more details about translations here and here. Feel free to e-mail me or comment below if you have any questions. If you want to make it before the next update, I’ll need the translations by December 29, as the next version will be released on December 30. Happy holidays,...

Hi peeps! It’s been some time since my last blog post, so I thought I’d go ahead and give you some details on what’s been happening lately and what’s coming up. What’s been up? Well, a lot! I’ve been busy making tons of changes in Mizuu. Many of them are “under the hood” changes that’ll make it possible to do other kinds of changes. An example of this is that I’m currently working on some database changes that’ll make it easier for me to implement a backup feature in a future version. Mizuu will now also support multiple file path mappings for single TV show episodes. Another example is that I’ve been making some changes to how library updates are handled. This means that it’s now much simpler to add other data sources. The next version of Mizuu will support both TheTVDb and TMDb as data sources for TV shows. And did I mention that TV show identification has been completely rewritten and is now AWESOME? Guess I didn’t. But needless to say that it is quite awesome! And it works with multi-episode files as well. Oh – and I’ve changed the way manual identification works. Previously you could only localize content in the system language, but now you can choose between all kinds of languages. If the content isn’t available in the selected language, it’ll default back to English. Quite neat. I’ve literally made changes to tens of thousands of lines of code in the past few months, and a lot of stuff has happened. I’ll go into great detail on everything when I release the next version. I don’t have an ETA yet, but it’ll be...